Test One Flashcards
Measure of high and low
Pitch
Measure of loud and soft
Dynamic
How long the sound lasts
Duration
Quality of sound
Timbre
Music is written on a
Staff
____ must be present in order to tell where the notes are
Clef
Mezzo means medium
True
Piano means
Soft
Forte means
Loud
Decrescendo and diminuendo mean the same thing
True
Two clefs
Bass
Treble
Treble clef is identified by which letter
G
Bass clef is identified by which letter
F
Mr. Whitt plays what instrument
French horn
Name of the piece of wood that is placed on a woodwind instrument to cause it to vibrate
Reed
Only brass instrument that
Doesn’t have valves
Trombone
Instruments are grouped according to how they
Vibrate
Produce sound through air
Aerophones
Solid instruments that produce sound by being struck, scraped, or shaken
Idiophones
Produce sound by striking or rubbing
A skin or membrane
Membranophones
Create sounds by striking, running, plucking a string
Chordophones
Top number of a time signature
How many beats per measure
Bottom number of a time signature
Which note gets the beat
Three types of musical textures
Monophonic
Polyphonic
Homophonic
Highest male voice
Tenor
Four main voice parts
Soprano
Tenor
Bass
Alto
Musical texture that involves one musical line
Monophonic
Musical texture that has a musical line with chordal accompaniment
Homophonic
Musical texture that has many musical lines occurring at the same time
Polyphonic
Lowest female voice part
Alto
Largo
Very slow
Adagio
Slow
Andante
Walking tempo
Moderato
Moderate
Allegro
Fast
Relationship of the instrument size to pitch
The bigger the instrument, the lower the pitch. The smaller the instrument, the higher the pitch
Four elements of musical tone
Pitch
Duration
Dynamic
Timbre
